In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
I still have some old Amiga backups on VHS. Worked too… :)
Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
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Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#22In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
In Poland, in the communist period, the national broadcaster used to do it. For Atari, ZX Spectrum, Commmodore 64.
Haven't heard the audition, though. Well before my era.
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#23Today, storage is so advanced that to the ordinary user it simply presents as some kind of non-leaky abstraction: small rectangular shape, no moving parts, stores blocks, retrieves blocks, low latency, high reliability.
Back then, the storage is was much more 'real': it was slow, made noises, degraded noticeably because of stray magnetic fields etc, complicated mechanical parts. By the hearing alone, you may spot problems.
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#24appears to be hugged to death for now.
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#25Should have used his record cutter first:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt6KMvkRM44
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#27In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
Simply Amazing. I'd love to know more about this.
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#28The video from the article, in case you don't want to accept cookies: https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.
Youtube has tonnes of cookies! Why give youtube a free pass but not some independent hobbyist's site?
Re: Booting from a vinyl record (2020)
#29In my country they used to broadcast software for Atari 800 over radio - and it worked...
Simply Amazing. I'd love to know more about this.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would be very surprised if they didn't still have analytics tracking on the MPEG-DASH streams directly (what yt-dlp is downloading)
yt-dlp needs to get the stream from somewhere. It has to fetch the website for that and even execute a JavaScript challenge to retrieve the media endpoint.
I'd guess it skips running the JavaScript that reports to the Analytics backend...